there is no panacea answer to this command that is white as the president drags this out through, as steve accurately described, a senate that will not be eager to embrace and control the further we get away daughter will be for democrats to push. lou: and the other initiative on the part of the president that he has made a priority, of course, back with comprehensive immigration reform. is there the appetite for this? standing tall as the leading conservative in the gain of eight. but what is the appetite in the senate for comprehensive immigration reform as has been outlined? >> a gross oversimplification of the state of play here in washington. but i think there are basically three groups. there are people who say, look at where we are today. no matter what what we must avoid is being in this position again. we cannot have 12 million or however many illegal immigrants here in the united states. we have to do everything we can to prevent an eventuality. then you have a second group, more bipartisan, and they say we have to deal with what is in front of us, but we should do what we can to